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Chapter 2
Ichigo was having a great day. It was few days after the battle against Yhwach where Ishida helped by temporally stopping Yhwach's all mighty allowing him to land the killing blow. He and Uryū had a nice long chat about why he joined Yhwach and sorted some stuff out between the two of them. Orihime had to heal the bump on his head after the discussion, but nothing major happened after that. They freeloaded at Kukaku's residence for a few days. For a lady missing a arm she sure has quite the temper, also what is with that fist, she hits hard enough that he passively hardened his skull with hierro and blut vene.
The final day before departure started with the usual brawl with Ganju during breakfast, Kukaku intervened like she always does, the goodbyes to all their friends and some of the captains that weren't recuperating. Entering the dangai and immediately being chased by the cleaner the moment he, Orihime, Chad, and Uryū stepped into it was very unexpected. He needs to ask someone how this thing survived death, it could be that it can time travel hence never truly dying just dead in one time line and another timeline just takes over kind of thing. They exited the Dangai only to enter Soul Society again.
Today had gone from great to being the usual adventure it seems. "Why are we back in Soul Society, aren't we supposed to be in Karakura town ?".
While looking around Ishida asked, "This place looks familiar to us doesn't it, the walls that guard the Soul King's palace is not protecting the Seireitei right now and …." After closing his eye's Ichigo realised what Ishida was doing and sensed all their allies and friends spirit energy, only to find their energy to be lower than what he was used to, Rukia's spirit energy being so low that he almost missed her when scanning the Seireitei and some other spirit energies that he didn't think he would ever sense again Ukitake's being an example.
Now that Ishida mention it area around him does look familiar, this is where they landed during their first invasion, Ishida continued to talk summing up what they sensed. Could it be, his dad did mention that it was possible, hell he said they already did it the first time they came to soul society. But is this real? The cleaner throwing them of their time axis? But why only two or so years, his dad mentioned centuries. Guess he was lucky they didn't travel too far back or ahead in time and rather just a few years. Else Chad and Orihime would have died of ….? He will need to ask Kisuke or his dad when he gets the chance, maby one of the captains would know as well.
He gave a quick look around him, Orihime and Chad was wearing the clothes they were wearing when they left in the future, Yoruichi was with them now, she and Kisuke left earlier than they did in the future, so this is probably the Yoruichi that came with them to save Rukia. So this is real, they travelled back in time. Most of what around him supports this theory so far, nodding to himself subconsciously.
"So we time travelled. My dad did mention that if the cleaner chases you, you'd be thrown off your original time axis, it was only thanks to Urahara that we only went back a few days when we first invaded Soul Society, seems like this time we went back to the first time we invaded. "He noticed the look Ishida was giving him, it was that look of scepticism that spoke volumes of how he always sees him as a meathead with a giant cleaver, he isn't wrong most of the problems can be solved with just running up and beating their enemies. He rarely has to think of a way to beat his enemies, usually the problem is solved by other people before he can get to a solution. But there are cases that he can show he isn't just a meathead with a big sword, like the substitute shinigami badge.
"What? Aizen killed the cleaner so my dad had a chance to explain to me how the dangai works and what the cleaner's job is, most of it didn't make sense until, well, this happened." He started listing to the other speaking about their current predicament. Chad mentioned a potential problem, but he will leave it to Hats and clogs or Mayuri to solve. Well, let's hear the original plan to go save Rukia. Standing up form his prone position he asked, "So what was the original plan Yoruichi?"
Ishida grabbed Ichigo's shoulder and said to the group, "We will catch up with you guys, me and Ichigo have to meet him while he still doesn't have the almighty." He said the last part only to him as both was sinking into the shadows below them.
"See you guys soon." He was sensing Hisagi coming towards them, but Chad should be able to handle Hisagi and his group, if not Yoruichi can interfere and let them escape. Darkness consumed him and Ishida.
Outside the Wandenreich, the quincy city hidden underneath Seireitei.
He turned to look at Ishida and asked, "Going to explain your plan to me?" If he even has a plan.
Ishida answered, "We need to enter the big castle in the middle preferably from the room that has a view that overlooks the city. That room leads to the throne room like a backdoor, that way we can bypass most of the sternritters with exceptions being Jugram Haschwalth and Yhwach."
Alright that is a location, but he could always just crash in the middle of the palace and meet Yhwach at his throne. He still a hasn't told him why they came here. He can suppress his spiritual pressure but even then he isn't Sui-Fng that can hide her spiritual pressure, best he can do is push it till most people won't be able to sense his spiritual pressure anymore. That will only make him a beacon to Yhwach and those close to their level though. So assassination is not possible. Ishida can't beat Yhwach on his own, so he is here to ask Yhwach some questions then, "What are we here to ask him Ishida ?" Asked Ichigo.
Ishida responded ,"The reason for his plan , the reason for his end goal and the reason why our mothers had to die for it !" Some of the things he and Ishida were talking about during their discussion, apparently both their dads showed up during Ishida's trip down to Soul Society to give him the still silver arrow. That arrow really saved their skins and the world, sure he still needed to be the one to do the deed, but that arrow gave them the small chance needed to end the fight and save the world.
Looking at Ishida, hoping the idiot's plan isn't just to ask the enemy some questions. Silence is what followed, so be it they will have to plan on the way to their destination. He picked up Ishida and threw him over his shoulder.
"Korusaki what are you doing!" Ishida's response to his action.
Now to explain that he is faster than him, "What you want to go separate or do you want me to princess carry you ?" Sighing at the fact that Uryū was going to give him a headache after this ,"Going separate will take more time because I will have to wait for you to move your ass to catch up so princess carry or shut up."
Up in the air flying with the hardened spiritual energy towards the middle castle, he made sure his spiritual pressure has reached the point where he is a beacon to Yhwach and those close to their level but undetectable to those below a certain threshold.
"Ichigo, we need to talk about how we can counter some of the abilities that the other sternritters have that you can't just brute force especially in the schutzstaffel ." Finally he started talking strategy, he nodded but it isn't like Ishida could see it.
He has some questions, one of the enemies while poisoning him? Started talking about the few quincies that remained or where in active combat around him at the time , "Yeah, there was this one guy that could poison me, or something like that and he mentioned something about some of the quincies being the soul king's heart and left arm? Also, that the leader was the first person to receive a schrift, I was going slightly deaf at that point, so I am not sure if any thing I remember is accurate. Any idea what their powers are and if they can neutralize me like that guy could?"
"Askin was talking about his teammates it seems, he probably didn't explain anything about their abilities, so let us start there. Pernida is rumoured to be the left hand of the soul king and his power is attacking with nerves, that would be how he twisted Yoruichi arm to that degree."
"Gerard is the heart of the soul king, if he isn't killed in one strike or attack then he will survive by some miracle and become stronger. "
"And the leader of the group Lille Barro , he has a huge rifle on him and is dark skinned. Think of his ability like a laser that will hit as far as the eye can see. Apparently he is arrogant enough that he will keep one of his eyes closed, if both eyes are open he will be able to pierce anything as far as he can see so don't attack him at all. I will disable his eyes with my ability ."
"Last but not least the one Askin replaced As Nodt, his ability will be to make you see the thing you fear losing the most, overcome that fear and you should be able to win. Plus, I think that your spiritual pressure will be able nullify if not negate his ability. If your spiritual pressure doesn't do it, overcome fear through sheer will. He will be wearing a full robe and a mask with spikes in it. "
"He will be your primary target here. When the fighting starts, strike him first and remove his eyes, I will then swap his condition with Lille and so remove the one of the problems in this fight, then when Nodt has recovered his eyes you will either need to force him into unconsciousness by pumping him with hollow spirit energy or with blunt force trauma. "
"With that I will remove Gerard from this fight by swapping his and Nodt's condition. Repeat that and we can remove the hand of the soul king as well leaving only Yhwach and Haschwalth." Ishida described his plan in full.
"And if there are others showing up instead of these few ?" Asked Ichigo the obvious.
"The rest will be no problem for you, Gremmy can summon anything from his imagination and he will only fight those he deems the strongest but, he won't interfere if you fight Yhwach. And Askin won't figth fair so don't follow him and dodge everything he throws at you. That should be all you should be worried about, leave the rest to me. The ones that I have a plan for are the most likely to show up they very rarely stray far from Yhwach and are extremely loyal to him, plus he can revive them if they still have a solid body so if you attack any of them make sure to destroy their corpses when you choose to kill them."
"Lastly you will no doubt experience it during this fight, but he will use auswählen to empower himself to fight you on your level once you activate bankai or when you push him hard enough, it isn't the almighty but he is still mighty powerful with or without it. We might be able to get a few quincies as allies if we fail to kill him." Was the last of Ishida's plan and advice before they landed in the castle.
He dropped Ishida and moved a few meters to the right, allowing them both a view on the throne and doors behind it. They just need to wait for Yhwach and the rest that would follow him.
They didn't wait long, a minute or so after they landed Yhwach moved to his balcony to greet his guests with Jugram Haschwalth not far behind him. They started their discussion, the history of soul society, the soul king's dissections and desecration and his end goals and plans for after the end. What infuriated Ichigo was that he was starting a new world where the same pattern will repeat over and over again, where Yhwach will eventually be killed, turned into the soul king and the pattern will start again, one endless cycle governed by fear.
One of the sternrittes being well the hand of the soul king and looking like a hand did surprise him for a second but that was quickly replaced by vigilance. Their enemies did increased, and the ones that Ishida predicted to be there for combat did arrive. Seems like they will have to enact the plan his plan then.
Activating horn of salvation or his hollow state is much easier now after doing it again, just so happens to be against the same person, but for now the speed will help him reach the weirdo with the spikes and mask. Ishida said that he should destroy his eyes, wait and then knock him out 2 times and then either kill him or knock him out again.
That plan is going to take too long and Yhwach or someone else will interfere. With his current strength and speed he can just hit them all separately and remove them from the fight in less time and less care for the surrounding buildings and area than the plan was going to take. It's not like they should care what happens in a enemy's territory.
Wrapping the cloth of the handle around his hand he moves towards the closest targets, that being the two pieces of the soul king. Arriving next to them he unleashed a Getsuga tensho. Striking both of them and removing them and the entire left side of the wall and roof from the current fight and building. Next is Nodt, Ishida might have a point with blinding the guy that unlocks more of his abilities the more he opens his eye.
Hardening and sharpening his fingers with hierro, striking his eyes out before he can respond. Grab his skull and throw him at Lillie. Prepare a getuga tensho for when Ishida does his thing. And he sees eyes where he destroyed them before and their leader holding his eyes, fire ,"Getsuga tensho." Removing them and the right side of the wall and roof.
All that left to fight is the king now, turning to see Yhwach standing in the middle of the room weapon already drawn, waiting for him to strike. Enhance the attack power of his blade by adding a getsuga but not firing. Strike him hard enough to remove him form this location, too many allies that he can call to interfere in the fight. Yhwach most likely wouldn't call for allies but everyone behaves erratically when faced with death and most quincies he met during the war were complete zealots.
"Neither of us will win this fight." Said Yhwach blocking the blade with his own and blut vene activated around his arms to strengthen them.
"Getsuga tensho." Forcing Yhwach backwards over the city and out in the open.
Destroying the getsuga tensho, Yhwach created a spirit energy bow above him and firing several arrows at Ichigo. Slashing out with Zangetsu, destroying and absorbing the energy from the arrows, gathering that energy around his horn and firing a black and red cero in the direction of the enemy.
Yhwach blocked the attack. Ichigo moved to intercept him after the cero, attacking from above using both arms to increase his attacks strength along with blut arterie to make sure this attack is going to hurt. The attack was barely blocked, it shattered his sword, knocked Yhwach out of the air into the street below destroying the street and the building around it and leaving him with a long cut from shoulder to hip on his torso, despite that blut vene negated most of the damage and stopped the wound from bleeding.
Blue spirit energy gathers around Yhwach hands and around them blue pillars shot up and came towards Yhwach. As soon as that started it ended, the wound on his torso gone, his clothing mended and his spiritual energy is more, a lot more than before. Creating a new sword out of his energy. Yhwach using the quincy movement technique hirenkyaku he appeared across form Ichigo in the air.
Both rush towards each other clashing and locking their blades. Ichigo grabbed a hold of his blade with his hand reinforced with both hierro and blut vene, locking Yhwach in place while charging a cero right in his face. Yhwach using blut arterie to pull back his blade and gain distance, leaving a small cut on Ichigo's hand. Mixing blood with the cero to fire a grand rey cero and using Zangetsu as a catalyst to shape and condense the energy to form a crescent like shape to fire at Yhwach. "Grand rey cero."
"Sankt bogen." A giant bow appeared behind Yhwach with multiple arrows already lined up. It shoots and most of the arrows are used to hit the gran rey cero and decrease its energy but some of the arrows curve around to target Ichigo who slices and deflects the arrows with Zangetsu absorbing some of the energy in the arrows for himself as he moves towards Yhwach that is currently destroying the gran rey cero that reached him and clashed with his blade.
Directly after Yhwach manages to destroy the cero Ichigo attacks again from a lower angle hoping to strike him this time from hip to shoulder. Yhwach dodged backwards instead, Ichigo gave chase resulting in a series of clashes where each strike became faster, stronger and more accurate from Ichigo's side. Yhwach was on the offensive in the beginning attacking and deflecting Ichigo's attacks but later went on the defensive as each attack became just a slight bit faster, stronger and accurate than the previous one.
Yhwach disengaged by recreating his sankt bogen to fire at Ichigo so that he can retreat and use Kirchen Lied Sankt Swinger. Ichigo naturally charged into the technique that was forming around Yhwach before it could finish, trying to disrupt the process by firing a cero at Yhwach only for a wall of light to block the attack. "Kirchen Lied Sankt Swinger, the ultimate quincy offense and defense technique, it would usually try to kill the intruder with that step into its domain by tearing them apart with gods light but it seem that your natural defences are keeping any damage at bay."
Ichigo's skin has blue marks all over him showing that his blut vene protecting him now as way to stave of the damage from the light. Yhwach capitalising the newfound momentum was attacking Ichigo relentlessly, reversing the previous situation. Any time Ichigo got a chance or opening, solid light blocked his attacks forcing him into a defensive position.
Small cuts and bruises are forming on Ichigo from blocking, deflecting and attacking in this disadvantage terrain. They lock blades once more. Ichigo fired of a getsuga tensho to disengage and retreat to outside of the church made of energy. Most of the damage healed nearly instantly. Yhwach was merely standing inside his energy church construct waiting for Ichigo to enter again. Ichigo frowned at this. Creating another gran rey cero, condensing it with Zangetsu and firing it in the shape of a crescent moon at the fortress of energy. Yhwach responded by firing some of the condensed light of the church at the cero halting its progress and ultimately stopping it when it hits the outer shell of the church. The church lost some of its energy but was still standing, something more than gran rey cero would be needed to destroy it.
But so far he has used auswählen once tried to outmatch Ichigo and then holed himself up in a defensive position, either waiting for Ichigo to tire myself out or waiting for me to enter bankai to get a read on the ability of Tensa Zangetsu. His current position is weakened. With bankai it should be able to destroy the ability he is using and take him out if he doesn't move out of it in time. Going in and fighting him would take to long time and blasting the thing once more would only weaken the ability but leave Yhwach unharmed.
Needing Yhwach to focus on his defence instead of on Ichigo. Ichigo prepared another gran rey cero, while doing that he pulled on Zangetsu's cloth swinging him in a circle, cutting through the air and gathering the abundance of energy up in the air around them that they were throwing around during the fight into the vortex of Zangetsu swing. Gathering and condensing the energy to the point where it became unstable, adding the gran rey cero with the already unstable and very powered condensed Gestuga Tensho and firing it with Zangetsu at Yhwach in his defensive building of light.
While Yhwach was focusing on defending against that Ichigo assumed the stance for his bankai. "Ban. Kai." The energy created a tornado around Ichigo blocking everyone sight. Moving with a burst of speed out of the vortex towards the Yhwach that's church of light was destroyed and is trying to use auswählen to empower himself once more to match and surpass Ichigo. "Tensa Zangetsu."
One of Yhwach's hands had glowing spirit energy around it and the other was on his sword ready for the next attack from his opponent. They began their clashes once more, but it became soon apparent that Ichigo's bankai doesn't just increase his speed, strength and power alone. Yhwach has already discarded one sword for another sword made of pure energy to fight Ichigo. Tensa Zangestu was with every clash sapping away the energy of the sword he was using. Ichigo was also frequently firing Getsuga tenshos and the occasional cero at him when they disengaged or when locking blades.
Disengaging once more Yhwach aims one of his arms towards Ichigo. Five orbs appeared around Ichigo in the outline of a quicy cross. "I will take this power of yours and take it as my own. Sankt Altar." As Yhwach finished talking the five orbs shot a line of energy at Ichigo, wrapping him up in energy draining him of energy and absorbing his bankai, the lines now formed a quicy cross with Ichigo being the center.
Ichigo has felt this feeling before, when Yhwach broke his will and took most of his spirit energy, when Yhwach controlled his hand and made him kill the soul king. Having something happened twice with you makes you understand what happened and how interfere and stop him from accomplishing his goals. Drawing on his quincy powers to start a power struggle between him and Yhwach, stopping the energy from moving towards Yhwach. Drawing on his hollow powers to poison the pure quincy energy and bringing Yhwach's technique more under his control instead of Yhwach's. Yhwach can take in hollow energy, he wouldn't be at this level if he couldn't but, poisoning the technique however is another story.
The cross with Ichigo in the centre was making a bullet like point that was being pulled towards Yhwach until the quincy cross went from bright blue to black and red and the bullet started receding back to Ichigo. Becoming part of Ichigo's energy as the technique and the energy that was going to Yhwach returns to Ichigo. Ichigo looked at Tensa Zangestu and noticed the cracks on the shell of his bankai. With a swing the sheath broke apart revealing normal unharmed Zangetsu underneath it. The sheath that was breaking apart was absorbed by Ichigo. Forming armour around him and clothing him in more protective weave.
Yhwach stared at Ichigo in shock, "How?" No one has been able to resist his ability to take away their power and make it his own. The medallion would not have worked since it is very sensitive to hollow energy. He should have been able to take that power for himself.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, that is on me. In such a scenario if something like that happened a third time then the person would be able to take control and make a fool out of their opponent wouldn't you say so." Taking the bankai stance once more and going bankai once more. Tensa Zangestu reappeared on the battlefield once more and was without cracks on it. "Let us end this."
Yhwach solidified his shadow behind him and started to retreat. Ichigo seeing this rushed to stop him. When Ichigo reached him he was already fully submerged into his shadow. Ichigo went through his shadow and struck but his blow was blocked with Yhwach's sword. Yhwach grabbed one of Ichigo's arm threw him away from the shadow while he went back to the other side of it. The shadow disappeared as Ichigo tried to enter it again leaving him stuck on the other side.
Ichigo looked left and right and noticed where he is, he is in….
Back at the Wandenreich.
Up in the air Yhwach started to slowly return most of the power he took with auswählen back to those he took it from. Both hands glowing with energy and instead of pillars of light converging at his hands it was rather leaving his hands to those he took power from. He returned to his castle's balcony and was greeted by a completely unharmed Jugram Haschwalt.
"The fallout of me draining most of the sternritters will mostly be mitigated with that. Tell me about your encounter with our other intruder." Yhwach moved towards his throne waiting for Haschwalt to report his encounter with Uryū Ishida.
"He was a bow user and he told me he was your successor in the future with a schrift with the letter A. He didn't tell me what his schrift is, but he told me he was your successor because he survived the auswählen form six years ago apperatly. He left shortly after you and Ichigo Kurosaki started battling." Haschwalt reported all this while kneeling to the seated Yhwach.
"More likely that whatever has protected him from auswählen or power he has is the reason that he is the successor in the future and given that his schrift is also a A it has given him the qualification at least to be a successor." Yhwach stopped to think and then gave the following order ,"We will let the sternrittes know that Uryū Ishida is the successor to the quincy throne later when we explain today's events. This will allow us to see who are loyal to me or themselves. Add Ichigo Korusaki on the special threats list."
"Your majesty, what is your opinion of Ichigo Korusaki ?" Asked Haschwalt.
"If he was to be recruited then he will have to have a letter of at least B or A , below that would not suit him at all. If I have to guess the name of his power granted by the letters A it would either be adaption or apotheosis." Musing to himself he said out loud ,"Perhaps P would also work with him, his bankai to describe it with one word would be Power."
Haschwalt looked up at Yhwach in bewilderment. Yhwach elaborated further ," His Tensa Zangestu was able to destroy my sword and the sword I made out of energy was losing energy with every strike from him. I tried to take his bankai. The medallion was going to reject because his bankai as it has hollow energy, so I tried to take it by myself and he took over the technique by poisoning it with hollow energy and started to wrestle control back and he took full control over the technique by the end. And most shockingly his bankai was injured in the exchange and he is able to fix it by undoing it and redoing bankai. His bankai is unbreakable it seems. "
"But if a bankai becomes injured it stays injured." Haschwalt continued ,"Something has to be injured even when his bankai doesn't get damage, there has to be a balance."
"In this case we have to wait and see if your theory holds. We will have to observe him in the future to see if it is indeed an unbreakable bankai, considering his heritage it just might be the only exception."
Standing up from his throne Yhwach moves towards the door ,"Time to address the people." Yhwach's plan is to return the worlds to how they where originally and rule how the soul king should have ruled. But if he failed to complete his plan then he will need to find some way to open his eyes sooner so that he can see the future and plan accordingly.
Inside Seireitei, Squad one barracks.
Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, the leader of the Gotei 13 and Captain of the first division was having a weird day. The death sentence on the noble Rukai Kuchiki, was unexpected. Most nobles get of with a few years to months in Magots nest, not death sentence. That aside the Seireiheki came down from the soul king's palace and the kidnapping and later return of Shūhei Hisagi, lieutenant of squad 9 and the information he gave in his report was very concerning if not something he would have out right ignored on a normal day. He will have to call a meeting of the hire ups of the Gotei 13, captains and their lieutenant each separated and headed by himself and his lieutenant, Chōjirō Sasakibe.
Why doesn't he ignore this report that was sent directly to him and dox the pay of this lieutenant for wasting his time with excuses for failing and ignoring protocol. Well, Mayuri Kurosuchi, Captain of squad 12, for all his madness rarely sends him reports, mostly budget increase request and other things related to his squads research. Never just a page with just the words of "THE INTRUDERS ARE FROM THE FUTURE" followed by his signature and a bug that showed him a fight that had a orange haired shinigami, Aizen wrapped up in black bandages unconscious and all this from the perspective of the quincy fighting Yhwach and barely winning in the end. The page also said that he will have a presentation ready for all the captains at the inevitable meeting by the end of the hour.
The footage showed the last few exchanges and a bit of the after math. It started with the quincy shooting one arrow at what he later identified to be Yhwach, stunning him freeing the shinigami and allowing enough time to land the deathblow on Yhwach. Yhwach gave a speech about the original world and death as a concept back then and then finally died of his wound, being chopped in half and all that. When the quincy that betrayed Yhwach came closer to the shinigami did he see the corpse and identify it as Yhwach's remains. Aizen lying on the ground unconscious, the person this is recording from talking to a Kurosaki and then it ended with his old friend Ichibē Hyōsube appearing near the corpse of the enemy he failed to slay so many years ago. The footage ended there. Manako Osho, Ichibei's nickname for saying his name if he doesn't allow you can be fatal or just a minor injury, hasn't appeared in a long time and certainly not during the hollowfication incident hundred plus years ago. Since Mayuri couldn't have a pre-recorded footage of his old friend or enemy this has to be from the future since he doesn't remember this incident.
Shūhei Hisagi didn't report to his captain and instead directly reported to him, breaking normal protocol. The report given to him that the intruders are form the future, three of his captains have committed treason against their peers and that central 46 is dead and being controlled or something by one of the traitors. He called an emergency meeting that most of the captains should attend, Jūshirō might not attend due to his sickness acting up hence the reason why he has Sasakibe doing a meeting with the same information to the lieutenants. His right-hand man saw Hisagi report as well as the bug clip from Mayuri. Now he just needs Mayuri to give Sasakibe a copy of the presentation.
Summoning a messenger ," Emergency meeting, relay to all captains and lieutenants." Turning to Sasakibe ," Okikiba will bring you a copy of the presentation so that you can inform the lieutenants of the situation." After having Sasakibe and Hisagi leave his office to go to their meeting area. He first summoned Okikiba to ask for a copy of the footage from Captain Kurotsuchi and that copy delivered to the lieutenants meeting, then moved to the captain's meeting area in his squad's barracks and waited for the rest to arrive.
Mayuri Korusuchi is day has been phenomenal, his day started as usual checking up on his experiments and drugs, checking if Nemu's body is breaking down or any other problems when all of a sudden he saw on one of his monitors some of his bacteria that he injected in most of his test subjects appear in Rukongai, that alone would have been suspicious if not for the date of this specimens bacteria. It is dated for 2 years in the future.
Interesting so far, his instruments won't give him inaccurate data, the date of this specimen and other almost admin like data can be easily downloaded for himself. Using the monitor division's bugs he spied on the specimen and the rest of its companions. A orange haired shinigami, a cat with too much spiritual energy to be just a cat, two humans and a quincy. The specimen was a quincy? He thought he already finished the quincy archives, but if the specimen doesn't have any of his control bacteria and modifications then he lost to this quincy it seems.
So naturally he started downloading the oldest data from this quincy, the normal information like who this quincy is, its gender, age, general power, ect is the first and most common things that was being downloaded. Then it started with the data since its last update and curiously it started somewhere in the middle of a fight. The fight started with a man fusing his upper and lower halves together and then consuming Captain Aizen with his energy? muck? body? This person then tried to consume the body of the orang haired shinigami close to him while the whole world seems to shake.
The specimen seems to have reacted to that and shot a weird arrow, that stunned the enemy somehow and made him unable to use his consume ability?, he will have to investigate the footage later on to see if he can figure out who this is and what his power is. The shinigami broke free, the enemy started regaining his power but was ultimately killed by the shinigami. He will need to send this footage to Head Captain and tell him that he will have a more complete video for him at the meeting that he is going to call today. He will also have to report that their intruders are form the future.
The video ended when a monk showed up at the corpse of the enemy. Why it ended was because the quincy and the shinigami are sinking into a shadow….. It seems that he still has some research to be done with the quincies. He copied the information onto one of his display bugs and wrote the report, got Akon to send the report, back to research and spying on their guests. He smiled till at the prospect of new and intriguing research to be done on a species that he thought has stagnated and silently died of. The video ended there because it was cut off from this dimension by shadows? He will need to get all the data from this quincy.
Now to listen in on the conversation between the two humans and the cat that he suspects to be Yoruichi Shihōin. The two humans beat the lieutenant of squad 9 and some seated and non-seated officers quite easily, their powers are intriguing seems like he will need to research them, again? Their conversation was quite enlightening, total of three traitors and central 46 dead. Now that solved some mysteries, the three captains are most likely squad 3 , 5 and 9. Tosen surviving the holowfication experiment that most likely Aizen did, considering it was his name that Kisuke Urahara said was the one that did the experiment. And Ichimaru Gin for being Aizen's lieutenant after the exile of all those captains and later becoming captain of one of the empty spots and Tosen another empty spot.
If they are form the future did Urahara succeed in saving them from the holowfication? If he did then that would be something new to study. Oh these time travellers are going to make his year, so much research so little time. For now he will listen in on them and create a copy of the footage he has so far and play the report/message and video during the meeting.
They also talked about Aizen having a base in hueco mundo, an arrancar army and that he succeeded at getting the hōgyoku. A Ichigo Korusaki beating Aizen after the half of the gotei 13 got trapped in hueco mundo and Aizen beating the other half. Ichigo loosing his powers, the shinigami giving it back to him after he met the first substitute shinigami. Then the quincy war, the head captain dying and then Hisagi woke up. While the girl was talking to the cat. The boy went to cause Seireiheki to fall, form the soul king palace. After Hisagi woke up they told him only relevant information to the current situation and nothing of the future like the coming wars, the three captains, central 46 is dead and that they were his future allies and that he should tell what they told him to the head captain directly.
The quincy returned after Jidanbō Ikkanzaka let Hisagi return to Seireitei and the download continued. Ichigo Korusaki was missing thought, and the quincy just told them that Ichigo will join them later and that he was fine. He saw the aftermath, the clean up of the war with the quincies if he had to guess. Some discussion with Ichigo Kurosaki, the orange haired shinigami that killed Yhwach the king of the quincies, and the rest of their group and a lot of resting. The captains of the new gotei 13, he himself was obviously missing, bidding them goodbye at the end of their stay and they tried to return to the world of the living, the cleaner threw them of their original timeline if he had to take a wild guess. Messing with the dangai was a pet project that got nowhere. How they survived he would chalk it up to Uryū Ishida and Ichigo protecting the group with their power or something, both have the potential to be the soul king or a replacement for him. He would need more data on their powers.
The group landing here in this timeline, him observing them with the bug and then he saw where Uryū and Ichigo went. The quincy never died out. They evolved, right under neath them. In their shadows….. He needs to fix that as soon as possible. That aside, Uryū plan was quite solid, but it would fail if someone interferes or is able to react in time to what they where doing. The discussion about the soul king, the world before it how it is now and what the ancestors of the noble clans did to the king was something that he had speculated on and will accept this as a source but it will obviously be skewed in a direction to make the two of them that came to the quincy question if joining Yhwach is the lesser of two evils. Thankfully the two of them look to have some intelligence at the very least.
The end goal of the plan of the king was stagnation at its finest. Battle started Ichigo turned into a half hollow like state. He will have to get some blood samples from the kid. Ichigo removed most of them with energy blast from his zanpaktou and then blinded the one that the plan was revolving around the most before removing them as well from the scene. Ichigo and the king went on to fight further in the air while Uryū seems uninterested in combat all together and just shared some information with the enemy, whether the information is false or not is up for debate. Uryū simply retreated and hid himself while watching the fight play out between the Yhwach and Ichigo. The back and forth, defense and offense and later the retreat of the Yhwach and Ichigo chasing after him to stop him. Yhwach seemed to have tricked the boy but the boy seemed to lack experience as the quincy king was matching him in technique and skill while the boy was matching him on pure instinct and power.
Ichigo was steadily growing during the fight and making up for his lack with pure power and speed. He was adapting faster with every attack, block and dodge and Yhwach seemed to understand that the boy lacked experience with his quincy powers but was adapting to him so he tricked him and won this bout. Mayuri had no doubt that Uryū and Ichigo will be showing up a lot more to make his life either hell or out right kill Yhwach later. Then again they could always block Uryū access to this city in shadows…. He would need to research all of this to get to a more decent conclusion. Uryū returned to his friends and the cat.
Seems like he will need to edit the footage to some extent, show that the group that is invading are their future allies. He will off course keep a unedited version to give to the Captain Commander to share to those he can trust. He should probably give the edited version to Nemu as well so that the lieutenants understand the situation they are now facing.
The edited version would have the girl informing Hisagi that central 46 is dead, and that there are 3 traitors among the captains. That along with footage of the Gotei 13 of the future talking with the group and sending them of to the world of the living, perhaps seeing their future selves would make them more open to treating them as allies. Not that they have much of a choice in the future if his suspicions are correct. He should perhaps also add the last fight between Yhwach and Ichigo, Uryū and Aizen. It would help to show them what the future holds to them, so perhaps the fight between Ichigo and Yhwach that happened recently aswell.
So much to do so little time, he will send a clone of himself to the meeting, he has some research to do….
Why didn't Ichigo outright kill Yhwach, cause it is kind of impossible to kill the final boss straight from the beginning when you do a second playthrough in most games. As stated above Yhwach is insanely skilled, a guy with just his knowledge was able to keep Yamma distracted and busy while Yama is swinging around his bankai, just the knowledge. Now add the power with it and you get the real Yhwach. Also most quincy have the word holy to their powers, holy bow(Heilig Bogen) while most of Yhwach's attacks are called saint, saint bow(Sankt bogen) indicating there is another level above the common quincy powers that only Yhwach has access to. Ishida might be able to achieve this in the future.
If people wondering why I have them say the name of their techniques most of the time is because in Bleach saying the name of an attack increases the potency of that attack, hence the reason why they have an entire dialogue just to say the kido spell name and number at the end of it. Powerful characters can skip most of the incantations but saying all of it will increase the spells power.
Ichibē Hyōsube power literally revolves around the power of names.
How I understand spiritual pressure is it like a frequency of the visible light spectrum and electromagnetic spectrum. Most lieutenats would be around visible light where most people that have trained their spiritual powers can sense them of feel how powerful they are.
Most captains would be Ultra violet , their bankais can push them to match someone transcended (Gamma rays) or just a casual power boost to match someone in x-ray.
X-ray is where I would place most of the hax like characters because most of the need a strong beginning to get anywhere in a fight. If Gerard gets blown to literal ash by Ichigo using a gran rey cero, then his miracle would do nothing as in he has no hope of surviving.
But unfortunately most people that achieve great power falls in the x-ray where they can hurt people that have gamma rays frequency (transcended beings, Ichigo, Yhwach, Aizen, Ginjo, Hikone ) Askin vs Ichigo and Lile Barro vs Shunsui Kyōrako would be the best examples.
Powerups push people in this series a stage higher bankais, resurrection and vollständig being the biggest boosters in the series. The things aren't set in stone but the main idea is that their energy act like frequency where at the transcendent level they can literally crush and disintegrate beings that can't stand or match their frequency. You can crush at a lower level as well but most of the enemies can defend against that type of attack and just fight through it. That frequency if not lowered to some extend can also become undetectable to being below a certain threshold. Like how Ichigo increased his in this chapter to a certain point so that most people won't be able to detect him but as stated this marks you as a beacon to those close or on the same level.
Ichigo can't really loose being a quincy. It literally runs in his blood. He would have to die to lose his quincy abilities, death by loss of blood or something close to that. His shinigami and hollow abilities are tied as his shinigami and hollow powers are the same source, loose one loose the other type of deal. Hence he didn't loose any of his heritages or powers only energy when Yhwach drained him at their 3rd figth.
I hope this chapter answered most question from the previous chapter about when and how this took place.
Please review I need to figure out if I am doing anything majorly wrong or if I am on the right track.
Any way thanks for reading.
